nictitation
Example Sentences
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Separately, the sclera, the eye’s outer layer, would most closely resemble those of horses and cows and include a nictitating membrane, the built-in goggles that make it possible to see underwater.
From New York Times • Dec. 30, 2022
In her 2018 special “Elder Millennial,” she references a nictitating membrane, the translucent inner eyelid typically found in reptiles and birds.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 10, 2022
The patterns and colors of the creature's fins, shell and wrinkled neck are exquisitely rendered, as is the dull sheen of its left eye's nictitating membrane.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 30, 2010
When the rain blurred her eyes, she cleared them by flashing her nictitating membranes like windshield wipers.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
He heard the eyases chittering, saw Frightful sitting erect on her stub, and let his nictitating membranes slip across each eye.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
